Lot 328
  • 328

MAN RAY | Interior

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 EUR
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Description

  • Man Ray
  • Interior
  • inscribed in pencil ESSAI Litho Cassé for Marconi (towards lower left)
  • colour lithograph heightened with watercolour on paper
  • 65,1 x 50,1 cm; 25 5/8 x 19 3/4 in.
  • Executed in 1969 in an edition of 100 plus artist's proofs, printed by Michel Cassé, Paris, published by Studio Marconi, Milan. This is a proof aside from the edition heightened with watercolour by Man Ray.

Provenance

Sale: Sotheby's, London, Man Ray, Paintings, Objects, Photographs, Property from the Estate of Juliet Man Ray, the Man Ray Trust and the Family of Juliet Man Ray, March 23, 1995, lot 561
Acquired at the above sale by Dr. Arthur Brandt

Exhibited

Boone, Turchin Center for the Arts, The Omnipotent Dream: Man Ray, Confluences and Influences, 2003, no. 16, illustrated in the catalogue p. 17 and listed p. 36

Literature

Luciano Anselmino, Man Ray, Opera grafica, vol. I, Turin/Milan, 1973, no. 10, the lithograph in colour

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down, attached to the backing board in two places along the upper edge and floating within its frame. The right and lower edges are deckled and the sheet is slightly time stained and has some very minor spots of foxing in places. This work is in overall good condition.
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